As the nzred describes the Plookh's complex reproduction, Shlestertrap decides to produce a love story, "Srob meets mlenb, tkan loses guur, flin gets blap".
In the film, which shafalon notes includes the senses of sound, sight and smell, but not brotch or griggo, the guur leaves the family in a huff before rejoining it just in time to attack and kill a great spotted snake.
In order to illustrate to his superiors that he is indeed working as a cultural helper, and not self-serving, Shlestertrap gives shafalon three projectors and tells him to travel the world and show the film to Plookh far and wide.
Budget cuts lead to Shlestertrap being recalled to Earth, but before he leaves he gives shafalon a new film, constructed entirely of bits of the original, a technique he calls "The Old Switcheroo".
Don D'Ammassa has described it as "quite funny",[2] while Nick Gevers considered it to be a "scathing [analysis] of militarism and cargo-cult culture possessing great bite even now".